Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Halted Destiny ❯ A Surprise Comes In A Small Package ( Chapter 1 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
A/N: Can anyone guess what's coming up in this chapter? We're done with the prologue, now we introduce the story and characters.
For those of you who are Seiya/Usagi fans and those of you who are Shoujo-ai fans, you will see some of both in this story. I like most of the Shoujo-ai I read and Usagi and Seiya…they would have made cute couple if Mamoru hadn't been around first.
Disclaimer next: Sailor Moon and its resultant characters is owned by Naoko Takeuchi, not me. I am just using her characters for my own enjoyment. I do own the new senshi that appears in my story, as well as any other “new” characters, heroes and enemies.
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Chapter 1
A Surprise Comes In A Small Package
“Breathe, Serenity, breathe. You're almost done. You're doing great.” Ami, finally working as a doctor in the Crystal Tokyo Hospital, encouraged her new queen, the young woman she watched grow up, to give birth. “I see the head, Chibi-Usa-chan! A full head of silver hair! Push!” With a shudder, the baby slid out of the birth canal and landed in Dr. Ami's waiting arms. She handed the baby off to Naru, her assistant, and bent down to deal with the afterbirth.
“Naru!” Ami called, sounding strained. “Come here please.”
Naru handed the new baby off to a nurse to wash and wrap up and hurried over to Ami. “What is it, Dr?”
Serenity, still in pain, despite the fact that it was supposed to be over, heard Ami whisper something to Naru, but it was too quiet to be heard over the pain. She groaned as another contraction hit her.
“Push again, Serenity.”
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The flurry of activity in the waiting room was caused by a tall woman with blond odango pigtails and a tall man with dark hair.
“I tell you, it will be a girl! It has to be a girl. The Moon Kingdom only has girls.”
“Ah, but your daughter isn't only from the Moon Kingdom, she's also from Earth and Earth had a son once before.”
“But she is first and foremost the queen of the Moon Kingdom; she is going to have a daughter, so nnnnnyah!” This last was said with her tongue sticking out of her mouth.
“Odango, it's pointless to argue with you.”
“You know, Seiya, I'm still the Dowager Queen, so you'd better be nice to me. I can still have you thrown into prison…”
“I am already…” Whatever Kou Seiya, once known as Sailor Star Fighter, was going to say was drown out by a scream from the room the queen of Crystal Tokyo was in. A few minutes later, an embarrassed Ami came scuttling out, followed by Naru.
“Er…”
“What was…?”
“Is she…”
“How is…”
“She didn't…”
“Chibi-Usa-chan...”
“Small Lady…”
“No, she can't…”
“I'm going…”
“I have…”
“Not again…”
“I can't lose…”
“QUIET!!!!” Ami breathed deep for a few minutes before running her hands through her hair and looking at the expectant father, who was sitting with his head in his hands, and the expectant grandmother, who was holding on to Seiya's neck so tight that he was turning purple. “Usagi let Seiya go. Helios, she is fine.”
Helios looked up, his golden eyes blank and staring. “But the scream…”
“That was me. I came out here to apologize. Go on in, Helios.”
After Helios left, Usagi turned to her friend and said, “What was that all about then?”
Ami smiled and said to the group as a whole. “You'd better sit down.” When the group sat down, she turned to Usagi. “Congratulations Grandma…”
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A knock sounded at the door and Sue-Queen Serenity, Chibi-Usa, looked up. “Come in.”
“Love? How are you feeling?”
“Helios! I'm great. Did Ami-chan tell you the news?”
“She told me you were fine. That's all I cared about.”
“Your daughters are fine too.”
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“What?!? How is that possible?”
As usual, all eyes turned to Setsuna, whose own eyes were blazing with a red fire, meaning she was very angry. “How am I supposed to know? Remember, I had to pass on the guardianship of the Time Gates on to my daughter, or did you forget?
“Despite this,” Ami said, raising her voice above the din again. “What I said is true. Congratulations, Grandma,” she said again. “You have two granddaughters.”
“Told you it would be girls…nnnnyah!”
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“D…daughters? But…”
“I know. It was a shock to us too. Ami-chan screamed…”
“We heard it…” Helios said, distracted. “But, how…?”
“I guess fate just wanted us to have a Moon Princess and an Earth Princess. This way, we won't have to have a daughter that leads a dual life, right?” The nurse had finished cleaning up the two new princesses and handed them to their mother. “Meet your daughters, Helios.”
Helios looked at both of them. The baby on the left had a golden crescent on her forehead, meaning she had the power to control the ginzuishou. She had silver hair that was already growing really long. It was past her ears already and Helios knew that in a few weeks, it would be put up in the odango style that is common for the Moon Princesses. The baby on the right had a brown colored symbol on her forehead that Helios recognized as the Earth symbol, a circle with an even sided cross inside it. He took this to mean she could control the barazuishou, the Rose Imperium Crystal for Earth. Her hair was the color of the grass outside and had sparks of yellow intermixed. Her hair distinctly reminded Helios of the grass filled with yellow wild flowers. “What style will you give the Earth Princess?”
Chibi-Usa smiled and said, “In two braids down the front with the rest loose down the back.”
“What will we name them?” Helios asked quietly. Chibi-Usa looked up at him, and saw the look of adoration on his face.
“Why don't you pick one of them up?”
He reached down and picked up the Earth Princess from her mother's arm and stared down into her rose-red eyes.
“I was thinking,” Chibi-Usa said, looking into the Moon Princess' golden eyes, that we could name this one Serenity Usagi, after my mother and I.”
“And what about this little one?”
“Daichina Mamoko” Chibi-Usa whispered. “Daichina for Earth and Mamoko…”
“For your father. I like it.”
“Serenity and Daichina. No…Usagi and Mamoko…”
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“MAMA!!!” The scream of an angry three year old caused Sue-Queen Serenity to run to the aid of her daughter…well. One of her daughters. When she got to the playroom, she surveyed the room and leaned against the wall, will herself to not laugh. There were heart shaped holes in the wall and thorns sticking everywhere. The result of the powers of her daughters being “practiced”.
“Usa, Mamo. Come here.”
Usagi, a small girl with silver hair that was done up in two odangos crawled out from under the day bed, sniffling and holding her right hand. Mamoko, who was, despite being a few minutes younger, bigger than her sister was no where to be seen.
“Let me look at it, Usa.”
Usa held her hand out and winced as her mother's probing fingers found the thorn and extracted it. “M…Mamo di…din't mean to, Mama.”
“I'm sure she didn't, but I'm beginning to wonder, since she is not coming out of hiding.” Out of the corner of her eyes, Serenity saw her daughter's braids rushing across her field of vision. She reached out a hand and snatched one of the braids, effectively stopping the young girl in her tracks. “Mamo…”
“I…I'm so…sorry, M…M…Mama,” Mamo said, crying. W…we were pr…prackcing and I m…m…missed my target.”
“I see.” Well, Mamo, Usa. It looks like it's time to start your training. We can't be repairing the play room every time you want to practice, now can we.”
“No, Mama.” The twins said in unison.
“Good. Tomorrow morning, eight o'clock will see you girls out in the practice arena.”
“Who will be training us?” Mamo asked.
“Obaasan will train Usa and I will train you, Mamo.”
“Will I become Sailor Moon?” Usa asked.
“Yeah, yeah, will I become Sailor Gaea?” Mamo asked.
As the queen answered her daughters' questions, a dark shadow stepped away from the wall and materialized in the playroom, pulling thorns from her hair, her face, her arms, and her hands. “Stupid kids,” her deep voice echoing on the walls. “It is time to start my plan though…” The laugh she voiced made the paint peel from the walls.
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“Petal Barrage!” A long stream of rose petals flew towards the target, obscuring it and causing explosions to occur.
“Good, Sailor Chibi Gaea, good…” Sue-Queen Serenity, in her Eternal Sailor Gaea guise applauded her eight year old daughter. “You're getting really good at this.”
“Thank you, M…Sailor Gaea
Sailor Gaea clapped her hands and got the attention of everyone in the training hall. All of the new senshi were being trained by their mothers, except for Sailor Chibi Moon; she was being trained by Sailor Cosmos, the original Sailor Moon.
The trend that she started with having two babies caught on with her mother's old guard. Each of them had had two babies, though in their case, it wasn't always girls. Eternal Sailor Mercury, who was pregnant when Serenity gave birth, gave birth to two girls. One of the girls, a bit tomboyish, was being trained by Guardian Protectors, the protectors of the group of senshi. Eternal Sailor Jupiter had a girl and a boy, though both showed signs of being into sports, especially martial arts. Eternal sailor Venus had a girl and a boy and Eternal Sailor Mars had two girls. As with Eternal Sailor Mercury's daughters, one of the Mars girls was being trained by the Guardian Protectors.
The “outer guard” all had children before, and had trained them to take over their positions fairly soon after the battle with the Black Moon Clan. Sailor Pluto only had one, Sailor Uranus and Neptune had one each, and Sailor Saturn had one. All were girls.
Sue-Queen Serenity had been keeping an eye out for relationships and saw, laughing when she saw, that Isaiko, the daughter of Mercury that was being trained by the Guardian Protectors, was being very chivalrous towards Sailor Chibi Jupiter, Kyouko. She made a mental note to talk to the Guardians about setting up Isaiko as Kamen no Jupiter.
This being a time of peace, Sue-Queen Serenity didn't know if her daughters and the other chibi senshi would ever have to fight, but she wanted to be prepared.
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“Did you accomplish what I asked?”
“Yes. The idea is stewing in her head now…”
“Good. When she follows through with her new `idea', we will be waiting there to ruin her life.”
“Of course, Almandine-sama.”